[lxml-dev] iterparse and namespaces

[jholg at gmx.de]

Hi,

> > Is that possible to get all tags "a" without passing namespace? I mean,
> a2
> > works, but could it be possible to make a1 working too?
> 
>     ..., tag="{*}a"
> 
> might work.

I thought so too but it doesn't :)

>>> for e in etree.iterparse(StringIO(xml), tag="{*}a"): print e
...

The wildcard works for element names, not for namespaces:

>>> for e in etree.iterparse(StringIO(xml), tag="{http://www.example.com}*"): print e
...
(u'end', <Element {http://www.example.com}a at 2d7510>)
(u'end', <Element {http://www.example.com}a at 2d7570>)
(u'end', <Element {http://www.example.com}root at 2675a0>)
>>>

Same holds for .iter().

Is there a usecase for "give me every element x from whatever namespace"?

Holger
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